The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-04-02
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Tuesday. April 5th, by Chas. o. Cockey, admins
traitor, horses cattle, sheep farming I 4 PIE
estate TO Thos. B. Cockey Of s.. - .u
Wednesday,. April 9Th, by Levi Justus, near
Jockeys tavern, Falls road, horses cattle wa
Taesda a April 12th by H.. 1. Bowen, agent, val,
liable mill property on My Lady's Manor, on
rb .ne aaSe Aprii 18th by A. H. Stump Jr valua
HE horses cattle, hogs, farm implements, eUc.'
in Green Spring Valley.
The Pension Office last week granted PEN
sion to George Hates, of Woodberry, Baltimore
county. oos p.;a,r
and a. legal holiday. The Sunday following Is
Easter. c sc
Mrs. Grason, wife of ex-Judge Grason, OF
this pIace has been lying very low Tor week
mast and her death is hourly expected.
Col. Samuel N. Hyde, of Long Green VAL
Law who has been confined to the house with rheu-
matism for some time, is again able to be out.
Mr.. James Walter Tolley, prominent
Hartford county farmer, died at his residence near
TAYLOR, on Wednesday, in the SD year OF ms age
"A good many "crooked" silver dollars are
said to be in circulation just now and 1t would De
we'll for everybody to be on the lookout for them.
a new assembly of the knights OF LABOR
was organized at Warren Factory, Sth district, on
"wednesday night, starting with forty-two men,
bers. e.,., 60.
merly index clerk in the County Clerks ONCE tnls
week moved his family to Fourth street, In the
Belt.
The Baltimore EUening Netcs has actually
.o,;ad one item from THE UNION for which it gave
us credit, We don't know what's going to happen
next.
Iamns nut ND on the York road from Boundary
avenue to Waverly, to supercede the old gasoline
lamps. ,1 h;s
farm. at Finksburg, Western Maryland Railroad,
has removed to property purchased by MIN near
Govanstown.
Miss Martha Amoss, daughter OF Garrett
Amoss ESQ., of Fallston, Maryland Central RAIL
road. Ia AMENDING the winter with q school friend
ly as possible.
March rounded up its thirty-one days of
disagreeableness in an old fashioned snow storm,
the first day of April finding the ground covered
to the depth of several inches.
Elisha Parr, aged q years, brother of Chas.
M. Parr, carpenter living at Calverton, Balti-
more county, committed suicide at New Haven,
Connecticut, on Saturday last.
Mr.. Jacob Wisner, we'll known farmer
near Towsontown, was painfully, though not seri-
Ously, hurt few days ago by the premature dis
charge of blast in his quarry.
The last week of March was an exceeding
ly hard one on the growing wheat and inflicted
still further damage upon it. Farmers are very
much discouraged at the prospect.
Mr.. John H. Bradford, cousin of the late
ex-Gov. Bradford, of Baltimore county, died at
his residence, Abingdon, Hartford county, on Sat-
urday last, in the I'D year of his age.
Two houses ON Townsend avenue in Wa
verify, owned by Mrs. Watty and occupied by
Messrs. VIM. Watts and Chas. Carroll were slight
ly damaged by fire on Monday morning.
The dwelling of Mr.. R. E. Holtz, in Co.
wsnstown, was entered by burglar on Saturday
might, but only few trifing articles were TAKEN
The tsief got in through rear window.
Mr.. William T. Clark, prominent and
wealthy farmer of Hartford county, who died on
Wednesday, was the father in law of Mr.. Adolphus
Cook, of the Sd district, Baltimore county.
At recent sale of registered Jersey cattle
in New York, Col. E. H. Webster, of Belair, pur-
chased one COW, two heifers and three calves, the
latter Being of the celebrated Stoke Pogs strain.
A Wild steer that was being driven through
Waverly few days ago, made things lively for a
few minutes and cleared the road of all pedes-
TRANS. Constable Cole finally captured the animal
The business of the Western Maryland
Railroad is increasing very rapidly and it is es-
timated that the receipts for the current year will
600.
DR. e. Il. Dunn, clerk in the registry d.
vision of the Baltimore postofice, was removed on
Tuesday. He lives at Mt Washington, Baltimore
county and is son in law of Chas. j. K. Thorpe
Esq.
light company proposes to run wires to some of
the towns and villages in Baltimore county and
furnish light to the citizens at the rate of So per
lamp per year.
Rev. VIM. E. Bartlett, pastor of St. AIMS
Church, on the York road near the Boundary, is
having plans prepared for the erection of a new
parOehial school house. 1t will be built of stone
on the church lot
Rev. J. Wynne Jones, pastor of Abbott
Memorial Church, Highlandtown, was among
President Clegeland's callers Friday of last
week and was introduced by Postmaster General
Villas, an old friend.
The frogs creaked merrily on Saturday
and Sunday nights last, but their tuneful voices
wsre not heard the three following nights. 1t is
believed that their notes became CONCEALED il their
throats and choaked them to death.
Rev. Geo. W. Hyde, the new pastor of
Great Falls Circuit, was very cordially received
by the people there. He is said to be one of the
most effective workers in the Conference and will
render that circuit excellent service
Mr.. James M. Gillespie, of the 18th dis
trict, while shooting ducks on Back river few
days ago, killed seventy in one tolling shot,
That may be set down as an extraordinary shot
and one that is rarely if ever beaten.
Mr.. Carlton T. Brown, of this place, has
been appointed night Waterman of the Towson
National Bank. The recent safe burglary in the
town showed the necessity for such an official and
Mr.. Brown Is q No. man for the place.
Duck shooters on the Gunpowder and other
Baltimore county rivers have had unusually good
luck the past week and many ducks have been
KILLED. We saw two sportsmen who had about
orkxx A,,ay k1ar ouIf of 1oxyt
For want of something better to do, So
called sportsmsn are securing the country after
robins. The birds are being killed in great
numbers and it won't be long before they are en-
tirely extinct There should be law to protect
them.
Mrs. William ]. Albert, mother of Talbot
J. Albert, ESQ.,, Of Baltimore county, has sold her
handsome double brown stone residence on Cathe-
dral street, near Monument, Baltimore, to Mr..
Jesse Hiles, well known coal merchant, for
$50 900.
Mrs Mary T. Bennett, mother in-law of
Vincent T. Shipley, Esq, of the Sth district, died
at the latter's residence Friday night OF last
week, after a protracted illness. Mrs. Bennett
sas well known in Carroll county, where she lived
for many years.
At Z o'clock on Tuesday morning last the
thermometer registered rs degrees above zero,
piercing wind was blowing from the northwest
and the ground was frozen solid on top. 1t was
cold, awfully cold, ana ABOUT as unnKe spring as
anything could be.
-Belair proposes to have a town clock, with
large bell, and q subscription is now being
raised for that purpose. Again, can't Towson-
town do something in this line? We should have
o town clock by all means, and the dome of our
handsome Court House is the very piece for it.
,Who will start the movement?